Overview - A15 Bionic Chip Vs Exynos 2100

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released A15 Bionic Chip vs Exynos 2100 SoCs by Apple and Samsung respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 6-core and 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
A15 Bionic Chip 55
Exynos 2100 41
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
A15 Bionic Chip 56
Exynos 2100 36
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
A15 Bionic Chip 82
Exynos 2100 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
A15 Bionic Chip 64
Exynos 2100 53
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

A15 Bionic Chip Exynos 2100
CPU 209204 202484
GPU 351594 285430
Memory 118044 123653
UX 130276 140161
Total score 809118 751728
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A15 Bionic Chip

  • A15 Bionic Chip has 11.38% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 2100 (3230 vs 2900 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 57.89% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 2100 (1200 vs 760 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 33.31% higher memory frequency than Exynos 2100 (4266 vs 3200 MHz).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has 7.63% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 2100 (809 K vs 752 K).
  • A15 Bionic Chip has latest instruction set, hence better than Exynos 2100.

Pros of Samsung Exynos 2100

  • Exynos 2100 Support 50.15% higher memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic Chip (51.2 vs 34.1 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 1743
Exynos 2100 1088

Multi-Core Score

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A15 Bionic Chip 4844
Exynos 2100 3624

Image compression

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A15 Bionic Chip 224.8
Exynos 2100 170.5

Face detection

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A15 Bionic Chip 43.1
Exynos 2100 26.7

Speech recognition

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A15 Bionic Chip 136.1
Exynos 2100 64.15

Machine learning

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A15 Bionic Chip 104.9
Exynos 2100 51.35

Camera shooting

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A15 Bionic Chip 49.3
Exynos 2100 33.9

HTML 5

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A15 Bionic Chip 5.64
Exynos 2100 3.21

SQLite

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A15 Bionic Chip 1270
Exynos 2100 970.15

3DMark

Stability 82%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Stability 66%

Graphics test 33 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - 4K @ 120 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2732 x 2048 4096 x 2160
  • Max External Display - 8K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR - HDR10+
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3230 MHz

77%
Turbo Clock Speed

2900 MHz

92%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

2200 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
    4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard
    1x 2.9 GHz – Cortex-X1
    3x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 6 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache 256 KB -
  • L2 cache 32 MB -
  • L3 cache - -
  • Process 5 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 15 Billion -
  • TDP 6 W 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Apple GPU Mali-G78 MP14
  • Architecture - Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 1200 MHz 760 MHz
  • Execution units 5 14
  • Shading units 640 224
  • FLOPS - 976 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version - 1.1
  • OpenCL version - 2
  • DirectX version - 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 6 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine AI Engine with Triple-core NPU and DSP (26 TOPS)
  • Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 4096 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+ AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Exynos Modem 5200
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 6
  • Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Apple A15 Bionic Chip

CPU
55%
GPU
56%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Samsung Exynos 2100

CPU
41%
GPU
36%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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